The Kalaheo plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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55° on Nov. 17, 2006, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1905. Next is 58° in 1920.
Kalaheo’s center stands about 640 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 30 ft to 1,730 ft, a difference of 1,700 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kawaikini, about 5,200 ft, 10 miles north.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 4×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Kalaheo has a tropical savanna climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in August; winter nights fall to about 64° in January. About 23 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kalaheo normally reaches 83° and falls to 69°. The record high is 88°, in 1932; the record low 59°, in 1920. The most rain on this date, 0.88 in, fell in 1965.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1905 at Makaweli 965, 7 miles west, 500 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
